ꙮ The World Inverted ꙮ

Something about the soft implication in The Batman that the incident where his father saves Carmine Falcone was in a way more formative to him and his philosophy than witnessing his parents murders. Obviously him becoming Batman is directly linked to their murders, but how he enacts justice as Batman is tied to this memory. There is subtext that Bruce’s morality and his continuation of his family’s legacy is very tied to the idea of both following a certain set of rules (ie “he took the Hippocratic oath” vs The Law) but breaking others in a way he views internally as just or righteous (operating to save the life of a drug kingpin vs vigilante activities) and that manifests in how we see him act in this very early iteration on Batman.

I think the surplus of somewhat woobified and very angsty “everyone hates me” Tim Drake fics stems from the fact that canonically Tim went to the Dick Grayson school of blaming himself for everything bad that has happened ever.

I actually watched the UTRH movie before the comic and I think I must have been right off of a rewatch of BTAS and TNBA bc my initial thought for first suspect for who Red Hood was was Harvey Dent having developed another alter like The Judge. Obviously I ruled it out pretty quickly but I still think that would be an interesting concept to play with.

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